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Category:Nursing specialty organizations

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The result of the discussion was: merge to Category:Nursing organizations or relevant subcategories. MER-C 10:49, 18 January 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Nominator's rationale: Only 16 of them. Almost all in USA. Our coverage of nursing is pretty thin, and this doesnt seem very helpful, because "specialty" in this context is a miscellaneous category. It's more helpful to put them in the individual subcategories of Category:Nursing specialties. Rathfelder (talk) 22:51, 9 January 2020 (UTC)[reply]
  • That depends a bit what you mean by a speciality. Most nurses, like most clinicians, specialise to some extent. Only people in remote areas deal with everything, and that, in itself, can be regarded as a speciality.Rathfelder (talk) 20:48, 11 January 2020 (UTC)[reply]

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Category:Fauna of the Pacific Northwest

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The result of the discussion was: merge to Category:Endemic fauna of North America or subcategories. MER-C 19:33, 17 January 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Nominator's rationale: The text of this category indicates that this category is just for endemic fauna (i.e. animals found only in that region), but categories titled "Fauna of <region>" are not normally restricted to endemic fauna. Note: I've already removed some articles (e.g. Migratory woodland caribou) from the category. Note: the category text indicates that it's for a very vaguely defined region so I would support either making it more specific or merging into another category. DexDor (talk) 16:35, 1 January 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Or maybe merge to (newly created) Category:Endemic fauna of North America. DexDor (talk) 21:38, 2 January 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, MER-C 03:00, 9 January 2020 (UTC)[reply]

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Category:Television news programs by decade

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The result of the discussion was: keep. MER-C 19:35, 17 January 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Nominator's rationale: Only content is Category:American television news programs by decade Rathfelder (talk) 15:24, 1 January 2020 (UTC)[reply]

In each case the only content is the corresponding American category. Rathfelder (talk) 14:51, 6 January 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, MER-C 03:00, 9 January 2020 (UTC)[reply]
  • In theory I do not disagree with this reasoning, but in practice I do. If the creator of these new categories does not bother about populating them, at all, how are editors of Canadian, British, etc. articles articles even going to find out that this tree exists... For this particular case, if you are okay with populating them (taking over the responsibility of the category creator), I'll happily withdraw my support. Marcocapelle (talk) 05:18, 10 January 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Not a single category in the entire batch has only a "single" article — every last one of them has two subcategories, with the potential for more as somebody who's knowledgeable enough about any given country's news programming to tackle sorting them gets around to it. Bearcat (talk) 16:22, 13 January 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Bearcat Good call. I missed that; that the two "pages" were actually subcategories. This would then "effectively" break our category hierarchy as we'd have "2010s American television programs" and "2010s Canadian television programs" categories interfiled, presumably, as subcategories of "Television programs"? One alternative might be to merge the decade television programs into a single "North American television programs" category, but that would likely be an unwieldly and unduly large. We could call it "North American television programs by country," which might work, or "North American television programs by country and decade," but that's just a reworking of the existing hierachy. Doug Mehus T·C 16:30, 13 January 2020 (UTC)[reply]
The problem with templates automatically categorizing pages is that it causes unfixable other problems, including improper categorization of draft or sandbox pages in articlespace categories if somebody uses the template on them; unfixable duplicate categorization if the template is coded to transclude one broad parent category while the articles are actually being sorted into subcategories; and the ability to generate nonsense categories like Category:Cities and towns in (which really did once happen) if there's even the slightest mistake made in the category-generating fields. Bearcat (talk) 16:14, 16 January 2020 (UTC)[reply]

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